Choose one worthwhile goal, set a realistic time frame (3–6 months).
Don’t change course unless there's a clear reason to.
When you're tempted by a new idea, don't abandon your current one, write the new idea down in a notebook and come back to it after the period ends.
Almost everything worthwhile compounds.
Imagine planting a mango tree.
Week 2: "No mangoes."
Dig it up.
Plant another.
Week 3: "No mangoes."
Dig it up.
Plant another.
After five years you would have planted 50 times...
...and still not a single tree.
Not everything fails because it's the wrong choice.
Sometimes it fails because you never stayed with it long enough to see what consistency could have produced.
Stop asking:
"Is this working?"
Instead ask:
"Have I been consistent long enough to know?"
you will arrive in the future only to find the same person you are today, just older.
You don’t buy a decade of success all at once. You pay for it in small coins of discipline over years.
At the end of your life, you need to have something to show for it.
Time passes without a care for your convenience and excuses. You are not given extra time just because you don’t yet feel ready.
If you do nothing meaningful with all the time passing,
Growth isn’t about God testing your limits to see if you will break; it’s about God expanding your capacity so you can hold more of what He wants to give you.
An heir may own an estate by right but they cannot manage it until they reach the age of maturity or prove their competence…
God isn’t keeping the inheritance, the new level, the “promotion” from you; He is waiting for your spiritual competence to match your inheritance.
I was raised around the church, and I wasn’t into it. I was never going to be the guy that believed in all this just because that was what was socially acceptable in my environment.
Over the years, I had gone back and forth, but it was never much of a priority. Fast forward to 2022, I considered myself agnostic and decided to get serious about figuring out a direction. I read every book I could find on the subject, the Bible included, doing my best to view all the information objectively.
Around this time, I was down bad one day and decided to say a prayer and asked Him to show me a sign. The very next day, a man came up to me in the gym, hadn’t seen him before and haven’t seen him since, he held out a shirt with the verse from Jeremiah "For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to
give you hope and a future.” on it and said “I’m not sure why, but I felt called to give this to you today, he sees you”.
I get random text from my mom that afternoon, same verse.
On that same day, my Grandpa was in the hospital—the only artwork in his room? Same verse. (Found this out weeks later)
I realized that over the years I had a bad taste in my mouth about organized religion. It can be used to control and to profit, but I also realized that isn’t what Jesus wanted or taught. That is humans being human, and I came to the conclusion that it’s not right for me to let their mistakes affect the way I view Christianity.
I’m a logical dude, I get the skepticism over the subject, and sitting here today I can tell you that I never thought I would write something like this. Everyone is on their own journey, and I’m the last one to push my beliefs on someone else. I’m not trying to appear virtuous, or trying to assert myself as “above” anyone. I’m writing this because arriving here has changed my life in a way that makes it feel wrong to keep it to myself.
I don’t have all the answers, but through my own research and experience, all I can say is that I believe with all my heart and soul. God bless, and have a great weekend.